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it be forked in at once. Soot is a good manure, 
especially for the Tea-scented and other Roses 
upon their own roots, so are wood ashes and char- 
coal. Bone dust or half-inch bones form an 
excellent and most lasting manure ; a liberal mix- 
ture with the soil in preparing beds for the Tea- 
scented, China, or other kinds upon their own roots, 
is most beneficial. Guano and superphosphate of 
lime are both good manures for Roses, but require 
to be used cautiously ; if too freely applied, the 
result will be gross wood and foliage, to the injury 
and sacrifice of the bloom. Perhaps the better way 
to apply them is in a liquid state, and then, when 
judiciously employed, they are most beneficial, 
particularly upon light, sandy, and gravelly soils. 
Liquid manure of all kinds should be used in the 
spring when the plants are in a growing state, 
and again to the perpetuals after the first bloom 
is over. The drainage from dung heaps and stables 
is most efficacious, and good liquid manure may 
be made with either horse, cow, sheep, or pig dung. 
Prantinc.—All kinds of Roses which are worked 
upon the Briar or other stocks, may be planted 
in the autumn, say from the middle of October 
to the end of December ; but where grounds cannot 
be so early prepared, or the weather is too wet 
for planting at that season, it is better to defer 
it until February. In very many instances it will 
be found absolutely necessary to do so, and this 
delay will be far preferable to planting when the 
ground is at all wet, or not otherwise in proper 
condition to receive the plants. I believe that, 
